Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825-2016

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Completely revised and expanded since its French publication, Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825-2016 is the first English-language edition of the authoritative work on the subject.

Military forces all over the world were quick to see the benefits of railways in warfare, whether for the rapid deployment of men or the movement of heavy equipment like artillery. From this realization, it used to be a short step to making the train a potent weapon in its own right–a mobile fort or a battleship on rails. Armed and armored, they became the first practical self-propelled war machines. As demonstrated in the American Civil War, these trains were in a position to make a significant contribution to battlefield success.

Thereafter, almost every belligerent nation with a railway system made some use of armored rolling stock, ranging from low-intensity colonial policing to the massive employment of armored trains right through the Russian Civil War. Despite the fact that they were reasonably eclipsed as frontline weapons by the development of the tank and other armored fighting vehicles, armored trains retained a role as late as the civil wars in the former republic of Yugoslavia.

This in point of fact encyclopedic book covers, country by country, the range of fighting equipment that rode the rails over nearly two centuries. At the same time as this book outlines the place of armored trains in the evolution of warfare, it concentrates on details of their design through a vast array of photographs and the creator’s meticulous drawings.

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